Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an American translator of contemporary Arabic literature. Her work has been shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, and supported by the Jan Michalski Foundation, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and several English PEN Translates Awards. She has a BA from Swarthmore College, a MA from Columbia University, and was a CASA Fellow at the American University in Cairo.[1] She is also Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association.[2]
Selected works
Translator
- Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun (Comma Press, 2019)
- The Apartment in Bab el-Louk by Donia Maher (Darf Publishers, 2017)
- Suslov's Daughter by Habib Abdulrab Sarori (Darf Publishers, 2017)
- The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz (Melville House, 2016)
See also
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